J M Barrie's funeral, as recorded by Movietone News, followed by a few mute shots from Pathe's newsreel, which I found in the National Archives back in 1976 but minus any sound-track. The Movietone narrator says that "Barrie's coffin is followed by among other friends Peter Davies, who inspired the character of Peter Pan" - how Peter's toes must have curled at that, not least because we're actually looking at Jack and Nico, with Peter's wife Peggy/"P" sandwiched between them.

Peter can be briefly seen in long shot along with Jack, Nico, P and Gerrie, trudging along the main street in the Pathe clip ...

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